CHRIS MONTI
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Chris Monti is a Performer and Therapeutic Musician with nearly thirty years of professional experience. 
Contact Chris directly about bookings  [email protected]  401-374-4478    

Chris works in the Healing Arts Department at Rhode Island, Bradley, and Hasbro Children’s Hospital providing soothing, stress-releasing music for adults and children.
Chris performs  for children and families in Elementary Schools and Libraries. He provides an upbeat, interactive musical performance on guitar, harmonica, whistling and vocals. The show is family friendly with music that spans folk music, early rock and roll, pop, and international music.
Chris plays for Adults and Seniors in nursing homes, assisted livings, public housing and senior centers, providing an upbeat, interactive program of well-known songs and sing-alongs from the 1930s up through the 1960s.
Chris also performs solo and with the Chris Monti Band (featuring Marty Ballou on bass and Grant Smith on drums) at clubs, bars, and restaurants, weddings and private parties, playing an upbeat mix of original dance music along with American, West African, Latin, and Caribbean songs.
Chris provides Musical Soundscapes for Art Openings, Receptions, Cocktail Parties, and Weddings.
​Chris can play for any sized group. He has performed for individual patients in hospital rooms and for groups of hundreds in auditoriums. He  has a very wide repertoire of songs and musical styles and can cater a performance to just about any audience.

Contact Chris directly about bookings. 
[email protected]
401-374-4478     
Your slide playing makes me think of good Barbecue 
                                   -Joe B
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​Your music is the opposite of fascism

-Thierno Camara, Senegalese Bass Player

You rip it up. And it all makes sense.  -Gary S

When I heard that slide guitar, I thought it was someone crying.  -Miss Sylvia
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Photo by Jackie Sordoni
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Photo by Jackie Sordoni
Chris's albums, including the newest, the West African influenced Supreme Electric and the acoustic Pandemic Baby, are available on all streaming platforms or for download at ​https://chrismonti.bandcamp.com/
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  • Contact
  • Calendar
  • Chris Monti Band
  • Chris Monti Solo
  • Therapeutic Music in Hospitals
  • For Seniors
  • For Children and Families
  • Photos
  • Blog